egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace in a fresh show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. and earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence could be seen on the streets of tunisia where the assassination of a prominent opposition figure ignited outbursts of unrest the people blaming the islamist government for betraying the arab spring uprising. protests and catcalls coming from to see a hopeful john brennan at a confirmation hearing and fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination program could take america's spy bureau. and russia countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics the games promised to be the most unique but also the most expensive in history a huge overspend already costing

a key organizer his job. is live from our moscow headquarters you're watching the weekly right here in our team with me to seek out. well egypt opposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president morsi with some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that morsi uphold the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago in what is increasingly becoming a similar scenario meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for more than a month citing anti islam content but as artie's bill true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as the unrest continues. there's been

a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation all of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling for opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the. justifying talks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey one hundred five when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of security thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government

protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace. the building with molotov there pushed by take us and water cannons and so bloody a violence in the in the governor with deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. well in just a little bit we're going to speak to ahmed hawai'i he's a spokesman for an alliance of egypt's opposition parties called the national front for salvation of the revolution. well egypt wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week a wave of violent protests have swept through tunisia following the assassination of a secular opposition leader dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with the police or tease me with an ocean has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital. forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied

criticize that is them as the government for creating a religious state internees here and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas and not. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave. some crime because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony the turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it

would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and you have to continue to get in and protest but they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately that day such a street is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong looking into the man that proved that people support and believe our party. they try to save face but don't have the choice

they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and cruz and anxiety over possible further split and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims because always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and exploit that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger to use a go to became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now it is it has been wound up tightly it's

been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. t. . well our tears were a fellowship is still in tunisia she is keeping us up to date with the latest to be her twitter feed now in her most recent post she reports on the political crisis in the country saying the prime minister is still airing to reshuffle the government just by defiance from his own party and also promising to resign if the new cabinet is not approved. arrival as promised back to our top story of egypt where internet speed. a spokesman for an alliance of egypt's opposition

party has called the national front for salvation of the revolution well sir as the name of your opposition group implies the revolution needs to be saved how so. so you could ask this question again so you are i mean you're here you're the spokesman for the national coalition for the salvation of the revolution what about the revolution needs to be saved. it's not the saving of the revolution it's the saving of the whole country the front is a coalition between a number of parties that have joined forces together to try to stand up against the syrian need that's being created in egypt now we are trying our best to formulate a formal and solid stand of the opposition against the current policies of being reincarnated brotherhood policies and to

administer any change or any improvement in the situation. basically what we're what the opposition is trying to message is that they will not break until there is concession two words leave them and writes. the comic and policies that would favor the people rather than the interest of. well as you're pushing for their side these groups are pushing for this you're calling for more street protests whereas previous rallies have frankly turned violent and deadly are you really ready to bear the responsibility for this and the possible loss of life to bring these changes to bear. let's let's let's first clarify for something people are going to are going to the streets they are going on the streets willingly they don't really need any opposition calls for new protests because the whole country is in

a standstill there's nothing moving forward because there is no real administration at pressing the people needs and the people demand the actual anger in the streets what the opposition is actually doing is trying to organize these protests into. a more uniform. form of protest so we can actually decrease the amount of violence and increase the pressure on. very specific and very clear. positions also we have we have to understand something if we stand now the people we're going to be still in the streets what the position is doing we're not really calling the demonstrations we're actually voicing the people want to the people demands from the streets to the media to the to the regime into a more of a uniform political form where if you're talking about making these solutions even if they start if we're talking about making the solutions come to bear right to

actually move forward to get some of these demands they are talking about to actually come through i mean you had president morsi offering you a compromise talks to end this crisis something the u.s. had projected don't you feel that this rebuff only sends to the country into further political turmoil i mean you need to talk to move forward no story. sorry let me let me let me stop you there for one second he is not offering a compromise he's not offering a solution he's just here is doing a theater of discussions that is only for show what the main the main opposition stand is if we're going to sit down to talk you have to tell us the procedure that is going to be formulated the results of these talks how are they going to be put into action if you do not get into the. kind of process that would result from these discussions these discussions are only made for sure only made for cameras this is the only this is the only firm stand that the opposition are standing on

we're standing on that we're saying if we're going to sit down there has to be a process for putting through whatever we've got whether it's going to reach whatever we're going to discuss the president morsi is not willing to compromise the idea here is not building a resolution that would compromise from each point is and would result in to a solution that's not the idea the idea is that there is no trust that's being established in any discussions with morsi because he did not withhold any of his promises he had given several promises before we elected and after his being elected we sat down with him in a lot of formal and informal discussions where he discussed a lot of promises and he never delivered so the idea of just going into a discussion to be photographed by cameras and for him to come out and say well we've discussed this and of discussed that and we've reached this and we haven't reached i think and whatever the demands that we are demanding is not even really discussed in a serious matter that means that means that these discussions are just for show and

we're not going to be just poppets in theater the other idea if we compromise now on the people demands as i said the people consider to be on the streets and if we compromise now the blood of the youth and the blood of the people that has been spilt all over the streets in cairo for the past few months is going to be for nothing is going to be for vain and to have the. of the use of the blood of the egyptians the opposition hands on the regime holmes how can you compare between people that are calling for demonstrations that are peaceful and the people that are holding the trigger calling for demonstrations are looking at all but of. course. the sort of compromise on a sort of would be necessary in order for you guys to move forward do you foresee very briefly we're almost out of time do you foresee any compromise possible that would and the turmoil that the country is currently in. briefly. the only solution now there is no there is no two plans that we need to compromise between there is basically a failure of administration there's

a failure of running the country the only compromise is doing is it's putting people that are in position of running the country correctly in the position of empowering them so the only solution that i can see and that any sane person can see that quality of government of all of the opposition of mr brotherhood and all the different political factions to be in a court of government that would be the only solution and the only way out because at that moment this government will take responsibility for any reform that's going to be as one of the happening in the country anybody for any stepping forward into into a direction of positive change is going to upset some of the sectors of the society it's going to upset somebody but of all the political forces of all the political factions opposition to the art of what quality of government that means that we're all holding responsibility towards that change and that change is going to happen but the idea of just excluding every day out of the government in

a post revolution country in a country that's acting that's calling for democracy when there's no real parliament all right sara where unfortunately at a time i have a hard time understanding you are you there that was remarkable and how arianna spends his time according to my ability to have such an additional party is obviously very strong words there thank you so much sir for a way and at length. president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced a senate confirmation hearing this week critics accuse lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride or some members of the public did not have a national interest and several times by protesters or against brennan as a driving force behind the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after the chairman ordered the protesters to be removed lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings but seemed reluctant to challenge him on his answers scholar and author call and have also as

a given brennan's abuses confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete our constitutional rights to those who are going to do grants or those who are an equal rejection of the law and you know with the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so we can be judge jury and executioner we can you know burden citizens abroad without having the. court we can so they are jurors and we can go is this dangerous and this is wonderful and you look at ministrations this is we can determine who are the jurors then that means you know we were only american. was only true without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. more news after

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way. right. right right. welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts but the government seems on moved by the crowds saying it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to do the country out of its debt hope that the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where thousands united in a massive show anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors as been relying on a joint e.u.

international monetary a fun. and loan since two thousand and ten now angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate a historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever now it was sealed after hours of debate and bickering over the deal left the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p. is now planning to block it in a private vote well economist james medway way is that constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this no whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print of the budget or already president of the e.u. parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said that they were likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and

still spend on spending more money you know that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around discourses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can he can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. well the multi-billion dollar missile defense shield that the u.s. is deploying in eastern europe won't be able to protect america from possible strikes in iran serious flaws in the system were revealed in studies the defense department prepared for a congressional briefing iran has always been cited as a prime reason for the controversial program that russia had been critical of this

further we're joined live now from the us by alice slater in new york she's the director of the nuclear age peace foundation thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us ma'am now what exactly do you feel these studies tell us is it that the shield is failing to live to live up to its goals or that's a. view what is it telling us. well we know all along this is being driven by corporate commercial interests the what what president eisenhower warned us was the military industrial complex and we've had scientists think. that stall was couldn't where you couldn't prevent an attack on the u.s. homeland because if somebody wanted to get through with it with a their nuclear bomb or a regular boat they could send millions hundreds of decoys so we couldn't possibly stop everything coming through and the tests that they've been doing over the years

that started back with reagan with his we called it stahl was at the time they they don't work they have fixed they rig the target so everybody knows it's not working and yet the machine keeps crying and it's had a terrible. relationship with the soviet union and now russia because gorbachev and reagan actually talking in reykjavik about getting rid of all our nuclear weapons and going but you have said but you can't proceed with this missile defense dollar was the shield reagan wouldn't give it up and the deal the table then put north that clinton to cut back to fifteen hundred nuclear weapons i mean the u.s. and russia had nineteen bass in between us and he said but you can't proceed with these missiles you're building and wouldn't give him his word on that and so then

putin back let me and i'm sorry to interrupt you but i'm just really curious here of course when the system first began this was part of the cold war development right that it was aimed specifically at protecting the u.s. from the soviet union threat now we're hearing that the new system is essentially defense allegedly defense from iran but do you feel that's really the the focus of the system here or is that perhaps a smokescreen as some critics have alleged i don't think it's genuine i think. they put out this vision twenty twenty back in the late in the ninety's like ninety two when clinton was president and this was the u.s. space command and their mission was dominating and controlling the military used. to protect u.s. interests and investments and these were in the government documents that weren't secret they were promoted so there's always been this u.s. policy of wanting to die i mean the world i mean first we had this confrontation

with the soviet union as we. don't know that was necessary but now with russia it is certainly no excuse and yet we're still in the past you still in this situation thank you so much that was alice slater new york director of the nuclear age peace foundation. well what looked like a distant olympics dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown as kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games at celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch while hand in hand with harsh criticism for over a spending not to mention missed deadlines r t as andrew farmar reports from starchy. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting it in the dream together in the company in charge

of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of. what's a rough estimate. this initial price was one point two billion. one point two

billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in. history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stuck. the past to reno was she strikes spectacular skating was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will host the olympic ice hockey final in the she so tropical like

ation that's like top cool your top because the park is them by the black sea there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid there too the resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by athlone and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob slade track and a road or elite class spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes thought she itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi.